Leonard Pitts | The marches of 1963 and 2013

Now is the time, still, for America to pursue freedom for all

11:18 PM,
Aug. 27, 2013

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Leonard Pitts

"So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Aug. 28, 1963

This is "tomorrow."

Meaning that unknowable future whose unknowable difficulties Martin Luther King invoked half a century ago when he told America about his dream. If you could somehow magically bring him here, that tomorrow would likely seem miraculous to him, faced as he was with a time when segregation, police brutality, employment discrimination and voter suppression were widely and openly practiced. ...